Occasions and trivia calendar

Our popular calendar lists over 300 entries designed to inspire a party, or simply create an excuse for one.

From classic holidays we all celebrate like Thanksgiving, events like the Super Bowl, to obscure celebrations like "Limerick Day" and the always popular "Eggs Benedict Day.

We have suggestions on how to celebrate some of these dates. Try a Mint Julep to celebrate "Mint Julep Day", or a Dean Martini cocktail to celebrate Dean Martin's birthday.  (How you celebrate "National Poultry Day" or "National Pass Gas Day" is your business.)

Click on the month of your choice and find out what holidays or excuses to party you have been missing, or find out who invented Root Beer, or what day the final episode of "Cheers" aired.  Have Fun!

February

1
• SUPER BOWL XLIII from Tampa, Florida. Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Arizona Cardinals. Kick-Off at 6:18 pm on NBC.
• Australian Open Tennis - Men's Final

2
• Groundhog Day
• Irish novelist and poet James Joyce is born in 1882

3
• National Carrot Cake Day
• The Day the Music Died
• Patient Recognition Day

4
• National Hangover Awareness Day

6
• Bob Marley Day
• National Compliment Day
• Waitangi Day in New Zealand

7
• Royal Hobart Regatta (February 7-9)
• Beatles arrived in New York City (1964)
• National Fettucini Alfredo Day

8
• 51st Annual Grammy Awards, 8 p.m. EST on CBS.
• 2009 NFL Pro Bowl in Honolulu, Hawaii. Kick-off at 4:30 p.m. EST on NBC.
• Clean Out Your Computer Day

9
• Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show (1964)
• National Bagels and Lox Day
• Pizza Pie Day

10
• Rum and Coca Cola by Andrews Sisters hits #1 (1945)
• Cream Cheese Brownie Day

11
• Inventors day
• Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day
• Peppermint Patty Day

12
• Lincoln's Birthday
• Darwin Day
• National Plum Pudding Day

13
• English actor Oliver Reed is born in 1938. Reed was once quoted as saying, "I do not live in the world of sobriety."
• Birth of U.S. test pilot Chuck Yeager, the first person to break the sound barrier
• National Tortellini Day

14
• Valentine's Day
• National Creme-Filled Chocolates Day

15
• 51st Annual Daytona 500
• 58th Annual NBA All-Star Game in Phoenix, Arizona
• National Flag Canada - new flag adopted 1965

16
• Saturday Night Fever soundtrack wins Grammy (1979)
• President's Day (U.S.)
• National Almond Day

17
• Random Acts of Kindness Day

18
• BRIT Awards
• Family Day Canada (Alberta, Ontario)
• Drink Wine Day

19
• Chocolate Mint Day

20
• American actor Sidney Poitier is born in 1927
• National Margarita Day (In February? We don't make them up, we just list them.)

21
• International Mother Language Day

22
• 81st Annual Academy Awards
• Hockey Day in Canada (CBC)

23
• Banana Bread Day

24
• MARDI GRAS & Shrove Tuesday

25
• Battle of Los Angeles (in which a UFO sighting over L.A. in 1942 triggered anti-aircraft artillery)

26
• National Pistachio Day

27
• National Strawberry Day
• People magazine is published for the first time
• National Kahlua Day

28
• Final Episode of M.A.S.H. airs (1983)